Unions: UTA calls for 48-hour strike on domestic passenger service
They demand the payment of the agreed parity wage; The trade union accused the “rulers” of using force
National leadership Motor Tram Union (UTA), directed by Roberto Fernandez, today called for a 48-hour strike across the country next Wednesday and Thursday. According to the trade union, with the request for an agreed increase in wages.
This was confirmed to Télam by the union’s national press secretary, Mario Callegar, who clarified that there will be no strike in the Buenos Aires Metropolitan Area (AMBA). A UTA document entitled “Who is responsible for transporting passengers domestically?” He said today that “workers transport 9 million customers every day, but internal affairs employees cannot collect the salary increase” already agreed.
“Workers are in the middle of a dispute between provincial governments and the national government over who should be responsible for the latest parity wage agreement. Mandatory conciliation mandated by the labor portfolio has already expired, for which UTA is calling for a 48-hour strike on Wednesday and Thursday, he noted.
The trade union organization accuses the “managers” of taking forceful measures, in the conditions of “refusal of workers’ salaries”.
He also claimed that the union had exhausted all “bargaining avenues to preserve social peace and not harm consumers domestically,” although he ratified “a plan to fight wages to protect the increases that the workers themselves already had.” recognized. Entrepreneurs of activity and that managers do not know now”.
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Source: La Nacion
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